Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
josephwilde.bsky.social
Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
@josephwilde.bsky.social
Director of Advocacy at SOMO
🚨We’ve got a new investigation out showing how US oil and gas pipeline giant Energy Transfer – notorious for its involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline & for suing @greenpeace.org – is seeking to gobble up critical European energy infrastructure with the help of the Bully-in-Chief in Washington.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Haha, look at Danielle taking on the patriarchy💪🏼💪🏼 Go, Danielle! 🤩
Fighting the patriarchy since 1968.
#StemOpEenVrouw

(Grote Defensiedebat | de Balie & Atlantische Commissie)
October 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🚨 BREAKING! Telenor faces legal action over human rights abuses in Myanmar ⚖️

⚖️ Myanmar victims and civil society organisations, with SOMO's support, have taken the first step towards suing Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor for their role in serious human rights violations in Myanmar.
🚨 Evidence shows how telecoms giant Telenor, through its subsidiary in Myanmar, disclosed sensitive customer mobile phone data like names, call logs, and last known locations.

This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians.

Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...
October 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
🚨 Evidence shows how telecoms giant Telenor, through its subsidiary in Myanmar, disclosed sensitive customer mobile phone data like names, call logs, and last known locations.

This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians.

Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...
October 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🚨 EXPOSED! How does Big Oil kill sustainability and climate legislation? 🤔

🧐We got inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD. 🔍

📓Check out our findings and the playbook Big Oil uses to subvert laws that are in the public interest!👇🏼
October 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you're in the Netherlands, come join us tonight for an inspiring conversation with Peruvian Indigenous leaders and Dutch parliamentarians about making oil companies that are destroying the Amazon pay to clean it up!
September 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian partners ✊🏾✊🏼
We strongly condemn the US sanctions against Palestinian human rights organisations: ‎Al-Haq‎, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

Our Palestinian partner organisations are targeted because of their key role in accountability efforts, including at the ICC.
September 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🎉 WE WON! 💪

Dutch authorities found in our favor on every count in our case against the "Dutch" oil company Pluspetrol for its disastrous oil extraction operations in the Peruvian Amazon
✊ Indigenous Peoples are seeking justice after Pluspetrol's pollution of the Peruvian Amazon.

The OECD Dutch NCP has just confirmed that the company failed on:
❌ environmental protection
❌ respect for indigenous rights
❌ right to health
❌ transparency
❌ tax obligations

www.somo.nl/pluspetrol-f...
September 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨 BIG development in our legal case against the Dutch state for facilitating Israel's wat crimes in Gaza.

🎉 The Dutch government has cancelled three licenses for the export of arms to Israel.

💪 Seven more to go. We will continue to fight in court.
The Netherlands halt 3 arms export licences to Israel, admitting “risk of undesirable end use.” That’s code for war crimes.

But 7 licences remain. Dog exports continue. So does trade with Israeli settlements.

We are in court on 3️⃣Sep to break the full chain.

No more weapons, dog exports or deals.
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We're suing the Dutch government for enabling Israel's genocide in Gaza. Why?

⚠️ The Dutch state is deeply embedded in the machinery that enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, from exporting weapons & attack dogs to financing occupation & shielding corporate profits.

www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
July 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
⚖️The new US sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Albanese are an attack on international justice and the rule of law.

✊ SOMO stands in solidarity her ✊
🚨 SOMO stands with UN Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social following US sanctions aimed at silencing her work.

An attack on her is an attack on international rule of law.

States must act with:
- sanctions
- arms embargo
- corporate accountability

No business as usual during genocide!

#Palestine
July 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🤩 I'm incredibly proud of what SOMO & our partners have been able to achieve in the past year! 💪

✊ In the face of rising authoritarianism, SOMO challenged corporate power and spoke truth to power

🙌 Want to know more about the impact we had and what we achieved? Check out our 2024 annual report!👇
2024 saw the relentless rise of far-right, racist agendas and the failure of corporate and political elites to take real climate action.

So we kept rising against the tide 🌊

Swipe for some of our highlights and see everything we achieved at:
somo2024.jaarverslag.org
Annual Report 2024 - SOMO
The 2024 Annual Report of SOMO; detailing publications, work & financial statements. SOMO, critical, independent, and factual.
somo2024.jaarverslag.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🤔Who are the real winners of the AI race?

🧐 Do AI startups really stand a chance against #BigTech monopolists like Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Nvidia?

🤖Our analysis of the generative AI value chain found that startups are highly dependent on Big Tech, whose entrenched power restricts innovation
Can genAI start-ups really challenge #BigTech's dominance? 🧐

🔎 We analysed 12 start-ups' value chains and what we found is clear:

They're highly dependent on Big Tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia.

Read our full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
💸 Corporations are profiting from Israel's crimes in Palestine

⚖️ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a report laying out a legal pathway for holding those corporations accountable and liable for their complicity.

💡Read here our analysis of the report.
July 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
Investor-State Dispute Settlement lets companies run away from the harm they cause and blocks a just fossil fuels phase-out. ⛔️

It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment.

Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it:

🧵👇
July 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Reposted by Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
🇪🇺🚗 The EU car industry is NOT in crisis. It’s profitable, powerful, and using its influence to delay climate action.

Our new research reveals how the interests of the car industry have steered EU policy to put profits before people and the planet.

Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/manufactured...
June 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️

Yesterday the UK High Court found that Shell can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution in Nigeria, even though Shell has already sought to irresponsibly exit the country. #justtransition

www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️ | Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️ In a major win for corporate accountability and of particular relevance for the issue of (ir)responsible disengagement from fossil fuels as p...
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June 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
Verontrustende ontwikkeling; Colombiaanse mensenrechtenverdediger die zou spreken bij de VN in Geneve en bij Nederlandse universiteiten, werd vastgehouden op Schiphol en is vanochtend uitgezet. Samen met @christinepvdd.bsky.social spoedvragen gesteld ⤵️
June 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
BIG! Dutch gov't collapses as extreme-right Wilders pulls out of the coalition, after disagreement over his hard-line stance on asylum.

New elections now likely. Hopefully the Dutch electorate will stand up to the fascists & end the far-right's grasp at power in NL

www.politico.eu/article/geer...
Dutch government collapses after Geert Wilders’ far-right party quits
Prime Minister Dick Schoof will carry on in a caretaker role after asylum dispute topples coalition in the Netherlands.
www.politico.eu
June 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🥳 The next AMS BHR - Climate Justice Happy Hour is here! 🍻🥂💃🕺🎉

🤗 It's high time we come together to support and celebrate each other in our respective struggles for climate justice, human rights, and people power over corporate power 💪

📅 Friday, 13 June, at the Tolhuistin in Amsterdam
May 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🚨JUST IN! SOMO investigation reveals Dutch businessmen supplying key components for weapons systems to Israel, possible complicity in genocide.
May 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Check out my new blog with my brilliant colleague Misa Norigami about the impacts the Trump trade war and tariff chaos is having on Chinese factory workers!
Wages cuts, job losses, factory closures... US tariffs are severely hitting Chinese supply chain workers.

If brands cut ties with Chinese suppliers, they must avoid or minimise harm to workers 🚨

Read our new blog on @business-humanrights.org👇 www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/us-t...
US tariffs hit Chinese supply chain workers hard - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
www.business-humanrights.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🧐 What companies hide, SOMO's The Counter reveals 🔍

💥 When the harm is clear, but the supply chain is not, we help you connect the dots ⛓️‍-->🏢

🤩 Check out this blog by colleague Misa with stories about how people are using The Counter to fight corporate abuse and hold companies accountable 💪
When evidence feels out of reach, SOMO’s pro bono helpdesk, The Counter, can help you find it.

We can uncover and piece together scattered data to reveal how companies are linked to abuse and environmental destruction.

Here are some examples of investigations we did ➡️ www.somo.nl/what-compani...
May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms @lukelukeluke.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM